Killer's Widow: Have Gun, Will Travel (February 8, 1959)

“Killer's Widow” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 8, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin is hired by a bank manager to recover $30,000 stolen by outlaw Steve Morrow before a wealthy depositor forecloses on the bank. Paladin visits Lucy Morrow, the widow of the man he killed two months earlier, hoping she knows where the stolen money is hidden.

Coloma, California, 1875. A bank, a hotel, and a cabin with a rose garden.

Characters: Paladin, E.J. Randolph, Lucy Morrow, John Griffin, Steve Morrow

Listen for: Paladin's awkward confrontation with Lucy Morrow as he tries to recover the stolen money while dealing with the guilt of having killed her husband.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.